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...reflection ?it's sort of an admitting mea culpa for our whole system of justice...
...favorite speechwriter, Raymond Price. The following day he asked his chief of staff, Alexander Haig, to poll the White House senior staff and others for their thoughts on what he should say and how he should say it. Suggestions ranged, as one staff member later described it, from "mea culpas to a two-fisted hard-line approach." But the consensus was that the speech should be "moderate, dignified, strong in adherence to principle and hopefully presidential in character." Nixon's legal advisers, J. Fred Buzhardt, Leonard Garment and Charles Alan Wright, went to work on a statement that...
...between Britain's International Computers Ltd. and Germany's AEG-Telefunken and Nixdorf Computer companies, all of which make computers that are incompatible with IBM's. ICL is the only European firm that is turning even a marginal profit on its computer operations-in no small mea sure because of some $80 million in government subsidies that it has received since its creation in 1968 by the merger of two smaller firms...
...often pitted against their secular-minded countrymen in both matters of law and face-to-face encounters. Regardless of whether or not he is a believer, in matters of birth, marriage, death or divorce, an Israeli Jew is totally subject to the rulings of rabbinical courts. In the Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem, home of many ultra-Orthodox Jews, young men wearing dark frock coats and prayer curls regularly hurl stones at buses that tour the sector on the Sabbath, violating what they consider...
...brass-collar Americans. It could instead produce a new sense of reality. What is needed is a civilian DMZ, where the polarized Americans can gather, a place somewhere be tween the moral amnesia of those who would totally forget the war and those who proclaim a perpetual, self-lacerating mea culpa that would take the place of progress. Perhaps this war has bro ken the rules of history. No one can be sure. It can only be observed that in other times, in other wars, the American soul has been marked missing in action, only to return safely home...